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According to the police report, the burglar entered the building, which houses both businesses, through a back room ceiling. The same site was used to gain entry in a previous burglary, police reported...
Harvard police are investigating and have not ruled out the possibility that the burglar could be a Harvard student, the victims said...
...style of most glasnost films, eschews the bold editing effects and pristine iconography of the Soviet silents. But style is subordinate to message just now: the priority is journalism, not art. To U.S. eyes, the rebels without a cause in an alienated-teen drama like Valeri Ogorodnikov's The Burglar are a sight as nostalgic as Hula-Hoops. But in the U.S.S.R. these films play like bulletins from the front lines. So for audiences at home and abroad, the excitement of Soviet movies is not so much in their quality as in their very existence...
...discreetly offstage, and the detective is more likely to be a canny old woman than a boozy middle-aged man. Of the many imitations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, none has been quite so slippery and criminous as Melita Pargeter, a white-haired, well-heeled widow of a burglar whom Brett beguilingly introduced in 1987's A Nice Class of Corpse. Having skewered the pretenses of her fellow residents of a retirement hotel in that volume, she returns in Mrs, Presumed Dead (Scribner's; 248 pages; $16.95) to expose the follies of an executive suburb where the previous owner...
...that Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey built for himself in the foothills of Woodside, Calif., is as rangy as the 6-ft. 4-in. former slugger. But McCovey's home is not just big; it also has brains. A central computer links reading lights, kitchen appliances, thermostats and burglar alarms. Heating and air conditioning can be programmed to go on in one room but not another. Sprinklers buried in the lawn start up automatically -- and know enough to shut themselves off when it rains. A robot sweeper cleans the surface of a swimming pool, while infrared beams and motion...